Department of Paediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey.
Department of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
Eur J Dent Educ. 2022 May;26(2):422-433. doi: 10.1111/eje.12749. Epub 2021 Dec 28.
The aim of the study was to investigate the influential factors for choosing dentistry, their thoughts about the profession, their expectations for the future and their thoughts about the specialisation of dental students from all grades in the School of Dentistry, Marmara University.
Socio-demographic information, influential factors the choice of profession, thoughts and expectations about dentistry, and thoughts about the specialisation were evaluated in the questionnaire that included different question types in four separate sections. Chi-square test was used to assess the relationship between categorical variables, and multiple linear regression was performed to examine the combined effects of variables that influence the always dream of becoming a dentist.
462 of the 471 participants from all grades who agreed to participate in the study completed the questionnaire with a response rate of 98.1%. It was seen that the students' clinical experience made differences in almost half of their motivational sources for choosing dentistry and their views on future opinions and expectations (p < .05). In addition to clinical experience, gender also made a statistically significant differences in almost all answers in the students' opinions about specialisation (p < .05).
From the results of the study, the majority of Turkish dental students were self-motivated compared to familial and environmental factors for choosing dentistry as a career. The career motivations of them seemed to be associated with the socioeconomic aspects of dentistry, whereas the perceptions regarding the future of dentistry seemed to be associated with the need for postgraduate education.
本研究旨在探讨选择牙医学的影响因素、对该专业的看法、对未来的期望，以及来自马尔马拉大学牙科学院所有年级的牙科学生对专业的看法。
在问卷调查中评估了社会人口统计学信息、职业选择的影响因素、对牙科的看法和期望，以及对专业的看法。采用卡方检验评估分类变量之间的关系，采用多元线性回归分析影响始终梦想成为牙医的变量的综合效应。
在同意参与研究的 471 名学生中，有 462 名完成了问卷，应答率为 98.1%。结果发现，学生的临床经验对他们选择牙科的动机来源和对未来的看法和期望几乎有一半产生了影响（p<.05）。除了临床经验，性别也对学生对专业的看法几乎所有回答产生了统计学上显著的差异（p<.05）。
从研究结果来看，与家庭和环境因素相比，大多数土耳其牙科学生选择牙医学作为职业是出于自身的动力。他们的职业动机似乎与牙科的社会经济方面有关，而对牙科未来的看法则与接受研究生教育的需求有关。
